On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:08 PM Jones, Bruce E <bruce.e.jones@intel.com> wrote:

> Is there such minimum spec for NICs to achieve better performance (low latency/less packet loss)?

 

No, not really.  We have this [1] but that is more about network setup than NIC requirements.  For small clusters 1g NICs should be fine but 10g might be needed for larger clusters or network intensive workloads.

 

StarlingX supports DPDK and Time Sensitive Networking, both of which significantly reduce packet latency.


Thank you, Bruce!

 

        Brucej

 

[1] https://docs.starlingx.io/planning/kubernetes/network-requirements.html

 

From: open infra <openinfradn@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2021 1:24 AM
To: Jones, Bruce E <bruce.e.jones@intel.com>
Cc: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io
Subject: Re: [Starlingx-discuss] STX supported/recommended hardware

 

Hi Bruce,

 

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 12:54 AM Jones, Bruce E <bruce.e.jones@intel.com> wrote:

Hi Danishka.  The StarlingX project documents hardware requirements in the installation guides.  For instance this doc [1] describes the min hardware requirements for the Standard with Dedicated Storage configuration.

 

Most testing of StarlingX occurs outside of community resources.  My company has a test lab consisting of a range of systems that we use for testing.  In general the software supports the amd64 architecture and I would recommend Xeon-D series processors or the equivalent as a minimum for controller and worker nodes.

 

Is there such minimum spec for NICs to achieve better performance (low latency/less packet loss)?

 

It’s really your budget and your workload requirements that determine how much capacity you need.  You can see this link [2] for more info on planning a deployment.

 

       brucej

 

[1] https://docs.starlingx.io/deploy_install_guides/r4_release/bare_metal/dedicated_storage_hardware.html

[2] https://docs.starlingx.io/planning/index.html

 

From: open infra <openinfradn@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2021 9:43 AM
To: starlingx-discuss@lists.starlingx.io
Subject: [Starlingx-discuss] STX supported/recommended hardware

 

Hi,

 

Is there a recommended hardware list or a list of tested (by community) hardware?

 

Regards,

Danishka

 

 

Regards,

Danishka